CCA Asks FCC for More Changes to Infrastructure Rules
The Competitive Carriers Association wants more infrastructure reforms to speed 5G deployment. Members “encounter difficulties in certain jurisdictions arising out of the Commission’s ‘deemed granted’ requirement when a locality has ‘fail[ed] to approve or deny a request seeking approval’ of…
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an eligible facilities modification,” the group said in docket 17-79. “Members often cannot receive outstanding building permits or other certifications because they do not receive paperwork to establish the grant of their facilities modification request.” CCA asked the meaning of “concealment elements” be clarified: “Clarify that size-based concealment elements cannot be imposed to evade the specific, objective size criteria that the FCC adopted in 2014 to determine what qualifies as an eligible facilities modification, and that only an element identified in an initial application or approval as a concealment element qualifies as the same under the Commission’s regulations.” The group supports recent calls to “modernize its rules to permit minor, necessary expansions of existing sites.”